American linguist (born 1948)
Stephanie Wroth Jamison (born July 17, 1948) is an American linguist , currently at University of California, Los Angeles and an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences .[ 1] [ 2] She did her doctoral work at Yale University as a student of Stanley Insler , and is trained as a historical linguist and Indo-Europeanist . Much of her work focusses on Sanskrit and other Indo-Iranian languages .
She was married to the Indo-Europeanist Calvert Watkins from 1980 until his death in 2013.[ 3]
Selected works
Jamison, Stephanie W (1983), Function and form in the -áya-formations of the Rig Veda and Atharva Veda , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3-525-26219-1
Jamison, Stephanie W (1991), The ravenous hyenas and the wounded sun: myth and ritual in ancient India , Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-0-8014-2433-5
Jamison, Stephanie W (1996), Sacrificed wife/sacrificer's wife: women, ritual, and hospitality in ancient India , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-509663-7
Jamison, Stephanie W.; Brereton, Joel P. (2014), The Rigveda: the earliest religious poetry of India , Oxford Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-936378-0
References
International National Academics People Other